“Rush Home Road”
by Lori Lansens
Published: January 2003
ISBN: 0676974511

(Updated: January 28, 2007.)

From the Publisher…

A lonely 70-year-old woman takes in an abandoned girl in this heart-wrenching tale of love and loss set in the black communities of southwestern Ontario.

Rush Home Road, a dramatic début novel by an adept storyteller, was compared to John Steinbeck and Alice Munro and is poised to become beloved by readers around the world. While exploring the rich history of the Underground Railroad, whereby fugitive slaves from the United States found freedom in Canada, it also speaks broadly of motherhood, understanding, the importance of goodness and the power of love.

I love it when this happens. I hate it when this happens. I couldn’t put this book down (that’s the good part :o) and now it’s over (that’s the bad part :o).

What a story. What an incredible telling. What an experience. By the end of the book, I “was” the main character. Not only did the telling of her life beautifully unfold but so did her being. And I will miss her.

I hope that a small part of this character has now moved into me.

Definitely a five out of five hearts on my scale.